Abstract: This paper reports the preliminary results of a study undertaken to consider the decision-making processes of retirees who have recently located to retirement villages within the Adelaide Metropolitan District. The study recognises that the South Australia population is aging faster than any other state in Australia and suggests that the decision making of retirees both pensioned and self funded are of key interest to those in the areas of housing provision, housing investment and welfare provision. There have been a number of studies undertaken in the US (Marans 1983, Golant 1987, Stimson, 1990) where the environment of retirement villages, the health and “fit ” of movers and the push and pull factors relating to relocation decis...
The nature of the increasingly ageing populations of developed countries places residential issues o...
The baby boom generation in particular has reshaped the landscape of housing consumption in Australi...
Background Whilst the majority of older Australians prefer to "age in place" in their existing hom...
Residential mobility trends have created patterns of accumulating and congregating retirement popula...
As they age older people are likely to spend significantly more time in their homes due to increasin...
Aim To identify characteristics distinguishing older adults who have considered relocation to a ret...
As they age older people are likely to spend significantly more time in their homes due to increasin...
In response to the projected increases in the proportion of older Australians up to and including th...
Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small propor...
AIMS: (1) To identify factors that older adults find encouraging or discouraging about the prospect ...
In the face of normative age-related declines in health and mobility, increasing numbers of older ad...
This is a qualitative study of well-elderly persons living in a Canadian city. The problem is that t...
Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small propor...
Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality ...
Aim: To investigate ‘ageing in place’ in terms of house, locality and support, related to the Wester...
The nature of the increasingly ageing populations of developed countries places residential issues o...
The baby boom generation in particular has reshaped the landscape of housing consumption in Australi...
Background Whilst the majority of older Australians prefer to "age in place" in their existing hom...
Residential mobility trends have created patterns of accumulating and congregating retirement popula...
As they age older people are likely to spend significantly more time in their homes due to increasin...
Aim To identify characteristics distinguishing older adults who have considered relocation to a ret...
As they age older people are likely to spend significantly more time in their homes due to increasin...
In response to the projected increases in the proportion of older Australians up to and including th...
Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small propor...
AIMS: (1) To identify factors that older adults find encouraging or discouraging about the prospect ...
In the face of normative age-related declines in health and mobility, increasing numbers of older ad...
This is a qualitative study of well-elderly persons living in a Canadian city. The problem is that t...
Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small propor...
Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality ...
Aim: To investigate ‘ageing in place’ in terms of house, locality and support, related to the Wester...
The nature of the increasingly ageing populations of developed countries places residential issues o...
The baby boom generation in particular has reshaped the landscape of housing consumption in Australi...
Background Whilst the majority of older Australians prefer to "age in place" in their existing hom...